Suspenders.



No. 814,344. PATBNTED MAR. 6, 1906.

B. J. BAGON. SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED 110V. 8 1904.

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BENJAMIN JAMES BACON, OF SYDNEY, N EVV SOUTH ALES, AUSTRALIA.

SUSPENDEHS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed November 8, 1904. Serial No. 231,850.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN JAMES BA- con, a subject of the Kin ofGreat Britain, residin at Sydney, New outh Wales, Australia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspenders, of which thefollowing is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to trousers-suspenders; and the object thereof isto provide improved roller-strap attachments for suspenders of thisclass which take the place of ordinary buckles and by means of which theends of the straps may be secured and adjusted to any desired extentwithout puncturing or otherwise injuring said straps; and with this andother objects in view the invention consists in the construction,combination, and arran ement of parts hereinafter described and c aimed.

The invention is full lowing specification, of which the accompanyingdrawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement aredesi nated by suitable reference characters in sac of the views, and inwhich Figure 1 is afront view of a pair of suspenders constructedaccording to my invention; Fig. 2, a similar view of one of the roiler.attachments, on an enlarged scale and showing a suspended strap woundthereon; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 Fig. 4, a viewsimilar to Fig. 2, showing the Suspender-strap detached; Fig. 5, an endview of the device as shown in Fig. 4 Fig. 6, a front view of a detailof the construction and Fig. 7, asectional side view of' one of thesuspending devices, including the roller attachment, and two of whichare employedat the front of the susponders, the section being on theline 7 7 of In the practice of my invention I provide two ordinaryflexible straps a, which are connected at their rear ends by a doubleelastic Web member I), a link member 0, havin a transverse bar andformin what I cal a double link member, w 'ch is movable freely thereonand provided with a V-shaped bottom portion provided with a hook 0 fromwhich is suspended an eye-ring attachment o having a bottom portion 0,the top of which'is curved or segmental in form and provided with an eye0, through which is assed a flexible cord or strap a, which may e and ispreferably made of elastic material, and in disclosed in the folthecentral bottom portion of the part c of the eye-rin attachment c is ahole 6 by means of w ich is suspended a spring-clamp device f,comprising a top loop-shaped portionf spring side arms f havinginwardiydirected teeth f at their lower ends and a double link-shapedslide f mounted on the arms f 3 and adapted to compress the free endsthereof, so as to grasp and hold the waistband of the lower garments,either drawers or trousers. The eye-ring attachment however, togetherwith the flexible cord or strap c" and the spring-clamp device f, arenot claimed in this application, but are made the subject of adivisional application filed June 27, 1905, Serial No. 267,185.

Connected with the front ends of the sus ponder-straps a are my improvedroller attachments d, which comprise in the form of construction shown atubular casing d, provided near each end with a flange or collar (1,between which are two longitudinal slots (1, whereby a longitudinaltongue or strip at is formed, and in practice the ends of the straps orare passed through one of the slots (2 and folded around the tongue orstrip d and passed out throu hthe other slot d and folded around thetubular casing (i and the ends a of the straps adepencl from the rollerattachments d the same as from an ordinary buckle. One end of thetubular casing d is cut off spirally, as shown at d, and formed thereinis a notch or recess d, and suspended from the said tubular casing d isa link member 6, which is shown detached in Fi 6 and the bottom portionof which is provi ed with a hook e and the top side portions thereofwith inwardly-directed fingers c and the link member e is made of springmetal, and the fingers e are sprung into the ends of the tubular casingd, and one side of said link member enters the notch or recess d in theend of said tubular casing and prevents the rotation thereof, andwhenever it is desired to turn the tubular casin so as to wind up orunwind the end of tlie strap a, the side or sides of the link member eare forced apart, so that the tubular casing d may be turned, and whenthe stra is properly adjusted or wound or unwound the side or sides ofthe link membar 2 spring back into position, as shown in Fig. 4, and therotation of the tubular casing d is prevented.

Suspended from the hooks e of the link members (2 at the front of thesuspenders are suspending devices consisting of the parts 0 c, and fsimilar in all respects to the suspendspring-fingers adapted to enterthe ends of ing device connected with the link member 0 said casing,substantially as shown and deat the back of the suspenders, and thestraps scribed.

or cords c are designed for the purpose of l making connection withbuttons connected with the waistband of a pair of trousers, while thesupplemental clamp sus ending devices j are designed for use in case t ebuttons should break oil and may also be used for suspending a pair oftrousers in the ordinary or usual ds 0 are used manner when the strapsor cor for suspending the trousers.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters P atent, is

1. A roller-strap attachment for suspenders, comprising a tubular casinghavin col lars or flanges near its opposite ends, a ongitudinal stripextending between said collars or flanges, one end of said casing beingspiral 2. A roller-strap attachment for suspenders, comprising a tubularcasing having a longitudinal strip at one side thereof and one end ofwhich is provided with a notch or recess, and a link member providedwith spring-fingers adapted to enter the end of said casing,substantially as shown and described.

3. A roller-strap attachment for suspenders, comprising a tubular casinghaving a longitudinal strip at one side thereof and one end of which isspiral inform and provided with a notch' or recess, and a link memberprovided with s ring-fingers ada ted to enter the ends of sai casing,said lin member being provided with a hook, substantially as shown anddescribed.

BENJAMIN JAMES BACON.

in form and provided with a notch or recess Witnesses: and a link devicesuspended from said casing LYDIA ALICE TUCKER, and the sides of whichare provided wit ORLANDO HARRISON BAKER.

